In the context of the boom of the information and communication technologies, the knowledge society and the participatory culture, this research pretends to analyze the reception of a literary and audiovisual work inside an online fan community and, starting from it, the creation of fan fiction literature by the members of this community, as well as the relationship with the canonical autor. For this reason, the fans of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels and the Game of Thrones television serie, grouped on the FanFiction. net web site, along with their production were chosen as the object of study. The data was collected through the content analysis of the texts written by the fans on the mentioned web site and with the use of a questionnaire fulfilled by the same group of followers. Thanks to this information, and in the light of the Reception Theory concepts, a constant dialogue between the readers/viewers and the original text was found, and also between the original text and the fan fiction. Besides, it was proved how the fans become an active audience that produce new content from the apropiation and resignification of the original text. Also, it became evident the way they consume the canonical story and how they interact with it and its authors. In general, the investigation offers a look to the world of fans nowadays, their inmersion in the new technologies and their relationship with the media products.